Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Stelter: Leaders acting like this is over are failing to tell a hard truth" video.
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These protesters are the most unpatriotic people in America. And what's worse, there is nothing grassroots about these protests at all. It may look homegrown, but it's not. They are being funded, guided and created by billion dollar corporations, and the conservative political groups that they own. But let's be clear, these protests are small, and they represent a very small minority of people in this country.
The protesters that show up armed to the teeth and dressed like insurgents should be treated for what they are....terrorists. They are truly the dregs of humanity. Like Trump, most of them have never served in the military, and they never will. Because they're too fat, too lazy, too selfish, too incompetent, and too cowardly. But that won't stop them from dressing up like insurgents and showing off their weapons of mass carnage, and stumbling around in public wrapped in a cloak of phony patriotism.
Like Trump, these counterfeit patriots are indifferent to the harm, stress, and potential devastation they are placing on our medical infrastructure by helping to spread this virus. It's like their minds have been infected with some sort of mental virus that blocks out logic, reasoning and critical thinking. The concept of serving a cause greater than themselves is completely foreign to them. If they can't eat it, grope it, or shoot it, then they don't want it.
Do they really believe that the rest of America is out having a good time, and going about their normal lives? Do they believe that the more than 60 thousands families that have lost loved ones are enjoying themselves right now? Do they think the doctors, nurses and first responders who have been on the front lines of this battle since day one, and are now stretched to the breaking point, are out having a good time, and living a normal life? Our greatest generation from WW2 have to be spinning in their graves. I'm actually glad that most of them are not around to see this. The men and women of our greatest generation had true grit. These protesters are filled with true sh!t.
If they really want to protest something, they should be out protesting for more protective gear for nurses, doctors, and first responders. Or how about protesting for more testing nation wide. But once again, they're too selfish, and too unpatriotic. For once, they should try and consider all of these things, and reject the worst instincts of their human nature. And last but not least, they should for once give some consideration to growing the F. UP.
Marine veteran
Semper Fi..
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Trump is running the country with the exact same type of logic, wisdom and leadership that he used with his casinos. And it worked out great for him personally, but it was a disaster for the casinos, investors, and the thousands of his casinos employed.
A close examination of regulatory reviews, court records and security filings leaves little doubt that Trump’s casinos were protracted failures. Though he now says his casinos were overtaken by the same tidal wave that eventually slammed the city’s gambling industry, in reality he was failing in Atlantic City long before Atlantic City itself was failing.
But even as his companies did poorly, Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen. And that is Trump in a nutshell. A narcissistic sociopathic con-man who only cares about himself, and will use others to achieve his own self-serving desires.
In interviews with The Times, Trump acknowledged that high debt and lagging revenues had plagued his casinos. He repeatedly emphasized that what really mattered about his time in Atlantic City was that he had made a lot of money there.
Trump assembled his casino empire by borrowing money at such high interest rates — after telling regulators he would not — that the businesses had almost no chance to succeed.
His casino companies made four trips to bankruptcy court, each time persuading bondholders to accept less money rather than be wiped out. But the companies repeatedly added more expensive debt and returned to the court for protection from lenders.
After narrowly escaping financial ruin in the early 1990s by delaying payments on his debts, Trump avoided a second potential crisis by taking his casinos public and shifting the risk to stockholders.
And he never was able to draw in enough gamblers to support all of the borrowing. During a decade when other casinos there thrived, Trump’s lagged, posting huge losses year after year. Stock and bondholders lost more than $1.5 billion.
Trump now says that he left Atlantic City at the perfect time. Well no sh't. He left after he had ruined everything, and there was no more money for him to grift. The record shows that he struggled to hang on to his casinos years after the city had peaked, and failed only because his investors no longer wanted him in a management role.
He just did not put the equity into the projects he should have to keep them solvent,” said H. Steven Norton, a casino consultant. “When he went bankrupt, he not only cost bondholders money, but he hurt a lot of small businesses that helped him construct the Taj Mahal.”
In an interview with the Times, Trump said “Atlantic City was a very good cash cow for me for a long time.” Like a true sociopath, Trump boasts about how he ravaged Atlantic City, without any regard for all the people and businesses he hurt along the way.
Beth Rosser of West Chester, Pa., is still bitter over what happened to her father, whose company Triad Building Specialties nearly collapsed when Trump took the Taj into bankruptcy. It took three years to recover any money owed for his work on Trump's casino" she said, and her father received only 30 cents on the dollar.
“Trump crawled his way to the top on the back of little guys, one of them being my father,” said Ms. Rosser, who runs Triad today. “He had no regard for thousands of men and women who worked on those projects."
“He put a number of local contractors and suppliers out of business when he didn’t pay them,” said Steven P. Perskie, who was New Jersey’s top casino regulator in the early 1990s. “So when he left Atlantic City, it wasn’t, ‘Sorry to see you go.’ It was, ‘How fast can you get the he// out of here?’”
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